Steven's Birthday and the Rest of the Week

Unfortunately Steven was sick on his birthday with a high fever reaching up to 104.9 degrees. He ended up missing his birthday party at the gymnastic place here in town. His friends still all showed up and I brought the video camera. Everyone missed him and I recorded everyone singing "Happy Birthday" to him.

We brought his cupcake home that had the candles in it and we sang "Happy Birthday" again to him.Here he is blowing out the candles. Check out the candle that is still lit!

It was ironic that he missed his own birthday party. For weeks whenever he got mad at someone, usually when he did something wrong, he would say smugly, "You can't come to my birthday party." Hmmm, that'll teach him.

We didn't give him some of his larger outside and active presents until he was feeling better on Monday and Tuesday.

Here he is going out to see his new sandbox that Iowa Grammy and Grandpa got him (I forgot why he was wearing Rob's swim cap):

Here's Mackenzie and I, watching Steven play in his new sandbox, from the comfort of the Victorian bench.

Tuesday night Rob put together the trampoline we got him for his birthday. Here he is later in the week with the Superman PJ's Uncle Ryan and soon-to-be Aunt Katie got him.

I finished sewing Steven's "Warhawk" duvet cover this week. Here he is snuggled up with it on the toddler bed set-up in our room. He's actually been sleeping there and not climbing into bed with Rob and I since we put it on.

He wanted to snuggle with Mackenzie in it so Mom laid her down with him. As you can see they both enjoyed the time together.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Mackenzie has started crawling. She is getting a little more adventurous.


Yes, I did go get the camera and snap the picture before getting her out. Hey, my Mom did that to me when I was little and climbed under the TV in Pacifica and got stuck. I turned out okay.

I'm so excited Spring has sprung! Here's my plum tree with new leaves and a few blossoms. I hope that means it will finally produce fruit. I have been treating it with an organic fungicide this year since last year leaf curl nearly killed it.

My Meyer lemon tree that I thought I had finally cured of its ails got hit hard this winter by the frosts. We had some really cold weather this winter. I'm not sure it was in the best spot anyways. I sprayed it with some fungicide too since it looks like it has some wood rot. I'll give it more time before I have Rob pull it out. You never know it might just come back. If it comes back I think I'll have Rob move it to a pot.



When Rob and Larry moved the compost and did the Victorian bench they also moved the jasmine I had in a pot. I'm going to add a little wire on the post of the pergola so it can grow up on it along with the wisteria. I really like the jasmine here.

I so want to do some digging in the yard. The garden bed next to the garage needs some serious weeding. The weeds are a little tougher there. When I tried tugging on them they didn't just slip out easily as they did in some other areas of the yard. I'm going to ask Dr. Parks on April 6th if I am okay now to do a little minor digging/weeding. I've been learning to do some sitting in the garden. I realized I never really did that much. If I sat down it would be for like 5 seconds before I saw something that needed tending or came up with an idea that required activity in the yard.

I spotted the perfect sofa cover in the Bed, Bath, and Beyond catalog while I was resting one day. It came with two throw pillows, a remote holder, and a soft blanket that matched for $79. There was a coupon in the catalog too! So Mom, Mackenzie, and I went to the mall to check it out. The color was perfect so I picked it up.

It looks great with the new rugs I got for the living room from the JC Penny catalog a few weeks back during another resting session! I put the other items that came with the sofa cover on other chairs in the room to tie everything together. I better get better soon so I can go back to work and stop catalog shopping so much. I figure I am learning to multi-task better. Now I know how to rest with my feet up and shop at the same time!